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This will put your entire story in italics, then remove it all.

To remove the italics, select all of the text in the file ( shortcut: Control+A).

This will make your italic font underlined, but it’ll still be italic.

Under “Underline Style,” select one underline, with the thinnest line.

Now move your cursor to the “Replace With” box.

Now your “Find Box” should say “ Find what: Format: Font: Italic.”

In the “Font Style” box, select “Italic.”.

At the bottom, select Format, then “Font…”.

First, open Word’s Find and Replace tool ( shortcut: Control+H).Thankfully, I just discovered that Word’s search and replace feature will do this for you. So what was I going to do? Reformat the entire story by hand? Today I submitted a story to a place that wanted just that. And while most folks are fine with 12pt Times New Roman and italics (which I strongly prefer), you occasionally find folks who really want the “Courier New + underlines instead of italics” variant.

When you submit something for publication–be it a novel or a short story–you’ll probably have to put it in Standard Manuscript Format.